Page 74 of Crazy Rich Cajuns

“I don’t understand.”

She leaned in, a gorgeous smile on her face.“Surely someone, somewhere, is smart enough and motivated enough to come up with something that would…I don’t know…act like a strainer.It could take the sediment out of the water as it goes through.Then they could bring it over to the barrier islands.”

He nodded.Then frowned.Then said, “What?”again.

“I want to help you.What you’re doing with the islands and the coast and the politics of it and your foundation—God, Bennett, it’s just all so…amazing.”

“Well…thanks.I mean…” He had no idea what he meant.

“I want to get involved,” she said.“All of this is really exciting.There are some really big things that need done and…” She took a deep breath.“It’s so fuckinghotthat you’re the one leading so much of this.”

Bennett felt his eyebrows rise.“It’s…hot?”His body liked hearing that even as his brain was still trying to catch up.

She laughed softly.“It really is.I thought I was all into big muscles that could build things and get rid of bats and stuff but, turns out, my kink is brainy guys who have so much charm they can get people to give them millions of dollars, which they then turn into these amazing things that are saving the planet.”She leaned in.“Saving my home.My family.Me.”

She put her hand on the back of his head and her lips against his.“I really want to give a blow job to the guy who’s going to save Louisiana.”

Well, saving all of Louisiana might be pushing it.But he could save a few birds and fish and maybe a village or two.And if the fucking government would get out of his fucking way, he could do a hell of a lot more…

Bennett reined in his thoughts.He had a half-naked woman that he wanted to hisbones, offering him a blow job.What the fuck did he care about the nesting habits of the Least Tern right now?Except that he still kind of did.He could never completely shake all of that.

Damn.He wasn’t sure, Kennedy wasreallyready for him to be his all-out geek self.There was probably a balance between impassioned scientist who read legal briefs in his spare time and the guy she wanted to take her clothes off with.

He was reeling a bit from the idea that all of this was a turn-on for this girl who wore cutoff blue jeans and cussed like a shrimp boat captain and could absolutely get rid of bats all on her own.

He’d, admittedly, kept a lot of this from her because he’d figured she’d think it was all… Hell, he didn’t even know what to call it.Crazy?She wouldn’t have been the first to think the idea of building a barrier island was nuts.Boring maybe?He wouldn’t have guessed that water flow and river sediment and the politics of environmental protections would be interesting to her, not to mention a turn-on.

But fuck…if it was?Then he was going to be able to rock her damned world.He could do that dorky-scientist-slash-politician thing all day.

“I have to admit, that’s a hell of an incentive to keep working in spite of the set-backs,” he told her.

She kissed him.“The idea of stripping you down and putting my mouth all over your body and having you breathing hard and pantingmyname, while there are people all over Georgia and Louisiana who are begging you to work with them and help them with things… God, I don’t know, but that just makes me hot and restless andwet.”

He slid his hand to the back of her neck.“You wantmebegging?”

“I really do.”

“And saying your name?”

Her pupils were dilated and she was breathing a little hard.“Definitely.”

He pulled on the tie on the back of her neck, undoing the bow and causing her bikini top to drop away from her breasts.He took in the sight, then put his lips against her neck.

“Kennedy, I’mbeggingyou to let me make you come harder than you ever have.”

She tipped her head back.“Well…okay.”

He kissed his way to her collarbone, then lower, over the upper curve of her breast, and then down to her nipple.He flicked it with his tongue, taking in her gasp of air, then sucked.Hard.

Her fingers curled into his scalp and she arched closer.

Bennett pulled back.“Shower.Now.”

Kennedy opened her eyes, blinking at him, looking a little dazed.“Um.”

He reached behind her and untied the bottom strings of her bikini, whisking the top away from her.“Shower,” he repeated, pushing back off the bed and shedding his clothes.“Now.”

Her gaze tracked over his body as she slid off the bed and slipped out of her bikini bottoms.

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